First Person Diagnosed With Ebola Dies….Hospital Confirms

Thomas Eric Duncan

42 Year Old Thomas Eric Duncan was discovered with Ebola dies Wednesday…

He was the first person diagnosed with the virus in the United States after arriving in Texas last month just days has died following nearly two weeks in a Dallas hospital’s isolation room.

Duncan, 42, was given the experimental Ebola drug brincidofovir, but his family said he was doing poorly and the hospital had downgraded his condition from serious to critical. When the family visited Tuesday with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, they declined to view Duncan via video link because the last time had been too upsetting.

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